Ultimate Go - very simple, yet solving the free teire issue

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Re: Ultimate Go - very simple, yet solving the free teire is

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Indirect control of connected locations under the same direct control is given to the player with direct control of the immediately surrounding locations.
Direct control of connected locations are lost if it's not that controller's turn and they all fall under one different indirect control other than neutral.

So this is all that's needed to describe Go

Standard Scoring
When either a player has taken direct control of a location more than the total number of locations over the number of players plus the number or it wouldn't possible for a player to take control of two locations under the same indirect control simultaneously without losing control of them when their turn ends, every player gains one over the number of players victory points for each player they have a higher total of either: indirectly controlled points minus the number of times direct control of a point had been lost plus the number of times direct control of a location was taken beyond the total number of locations over the number of players, or: indirectly controlled points plus the number of controlled points. Or: the average of the differences in score from both methods.
This implies each player has 180.5 stones with leeway for other board sizes and numbers of players, which I think should be part of the rules, yet it doesn't make it necessary to count stones since turns can be counted instead.

Standard Location layout
(13+6n)^2d locations in a regular quadrilateral or regular hexagon, where n is an integer and d is 1
However in semi-standard sizes n and d could be any real number. The super standard standard is n = 1 and d = 1.

However, then again, ultimate Go doesn't include score in the rules--it's highly axiomatic and that seems more ideal. So the (perhaps a bit of topic) rules above should somehow be mixed with ultimate go rules, maybe . . .

Also the 'Ultimate' in ultimate go refers to the original meaning of the word of 'final' or 'last', it's simply a poetic pun that it can imply 'best'.
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